In Vienna museum, Nepalis worship stolen Buddha
When will Nepal officially request the Austrian government to return a stolen Buddha?
ERWIN MELCHART
August 23-29, 2002
Headline
Editorial
None of the above
Peel away the layers of skin from Nepali politics, the folds of endless infighting, and you come to the bare bones of what this is all about. It…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Disadvantaged abroad
The outside world judges us by the economic state of our country.
Guest Column by RAJENDRA KHETAN
Give and take
We face the dilemma of high expectations and low, almost non-existent, delivery.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Guy Jatra
There is one day in the year when Nepali guys can make even bigger asses of themselves than they do the other days in the year, and that day is…
Nation
Trading power
Northern India is starved for energy. Nepal now has surplus supply. And yet the two can't agree. Why not?
BINOD BHATTARAI
In the Kingdom of Anaemia
Two in three Nepali women are anaemic. That means very unhealthy children, and lower GDP.
HEMLATA RAI
Press counsel
Prime Minister Deuba may be called a "press predator", but he isn't in completely bad company.
PUSKAR BHUSAL
Interview
"Very few people understand the value of brand building."
Nine years since it got here, Thompson Nepal handles some of the country's largest commercial accounts, and a major chunk of government…
History
"We are totally cut off from the outside world."
BP's mind is on his trial and he, with Ganesh Man Singh, plan their defence. BP says that regardless of the outcome of the trial, he wants the…
Book Worm
Theories of Development
Concepts and ApplicationsWilliam Grain Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1980/1992 Rs 900 From Locke and Rousseau to Piaget, Freud and Skinner,…
Translation, Text and Theory
Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ed Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2002 Rs 865 This multidisciplinary, theoretically-sophisticated volume re-evaluates the…
Yak Yeti Yak
Heritage
Nature
The Snow Leopard
Our efforts to protect the snow leopard will only work once we look beyond just the big cat.
SOM B ALE
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Don’t worry
For those wondering whose hand is behind the increasing number of upside-down, curly, red question marks appearing on city walls, electricity…
Disastrous monsoon
A day after 41 villagers were buried in a landslide in northern Ramechap, a Twin Otter on a flight from Jomsom crashed near Pokhara, killing 15…
Editor killed by Maoists
Navaraj Sharma, the editor of Karnali Sandesh, the first weekly newspaper to be published from Nepal's far-west Karnali Zone, has been killed by…
Disabled Nepalis
In developed countries, the number of people with disabilities is 5 percent of the population or higher. In Nepal, it is 1.63. Good news? Not…
Business Briefs
No rail pact
Contrary to expectations, when the Nepali and Indian secretaries of commerce met over the weekend in New Delhi, they could not reach an…
Expos
The 12th Himalayan Expo which opened Wednesday showcases products and services offered by 125-150 companies from Nepal, the USA, the UK,…
A feather for Fulbari
The Fulbari Resort & Spa has been nominated to an exclusive club of the world's great hotels placing it alongside international names such as…
Ace profits
Ace Finance Company Limited says it had an operating profit of Rs 20 million last year, a continuation of the trend a year before. The company…
Letters
Unfriendly fire
The powerful article by Mohan Mainali ("Unfriendly fire", #106) moved many of us. Whoever was responsible for the original massacre-whether it…
Fee of cost
I take issue with yet a reader's letter ("Remove fees", #106) from a western tourist suggesting again that visa fees, tourism/heritage fees and…
Fly east
The proposed flights between Kathmandu and Bagdogra will benefit thousands of tourists, students and pilgrims from India and Nepal. A short…
Tundikhel
I wonder if any of your other readers felt, like I did, that Hemlata Rai shied away from calling a spade a spade in "Shrinking Tundikhel"…
CIAA
The CIAA deserves our gratitude for taking an unprecedented and bold step. I sure hope this is a beginning of things to come and not the end. I…
Article 127
I really regret to read your editorial "Article 127" (#107). Rather than giving an opinion, you seem to have already pronounced your verdict…
In this issue:
Trading power | None of the above | Editorial: Disadvantaged abroad | Give and take | In the Kingdom of Anaemia | Fatland | Press counsel | “Very few people understand the value of brand building.” | It's not too late to save the water | Poor little rich country | Like father, unlike son | Caught in the middle | Power games in the Philippines | Which top politician has been killed? | Television drama | “We are totally cut off from the outside world.” | The Snow Leopard | Guy Jatra